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Topic subjectRE: This race feels like its theme is confounding conventional wisdom
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13014178, RE: This race feels like its theme is confounding conventional wisdom
Posted by Ted Gee Seal, Sat Apr-30-16 03:14 PM

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>What Trump does in a Republican primary is not at all shocking
>if u follow the bread crumbs....The Repugs made their own
>bed...
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>Trump is winning because:
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>--White working class feel like they have been left out of the
>economic picture...
>
>--The base of the Republican Party has been lied too by their
>own people (WE WILL KILL OBAMACARE!!!!! OBAMA IS THE DEVIL WE
>WILL LOOK OUT FOR YOUR INTEREST!!!!)
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>--Companies shipping jobs overseas...KILLING the Middle
>Class...
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>But in a general election u need more than mad white
>folks...And that's the issue when it comes to the Republican
>party overall...The demographics are KILLING them...
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>In order to win Trump has to get 7 out of 10 pr white men to
>vote for him, which is damn near impossible...He also needs to
>get more votes than Romney did with minorities: blacks,
>Latinos, Asians....And WOMEN....
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>Trump beating Cruz and Kasich with the female or Latino vote
>ain;t anything to celebrate...Not when u r polling that 8 out
>of 10 Latinos have an unfavorable view of Trump...
>
>Hillary Clinton is VERY lucky.....

But... what if he just changes his message? The media have been really poor at pointing out how much of a liar he is and nailing him when he flip flops. Folks are saying he won't be able to tack to the middle, but what he does and those people are wrong about how effectively he can do that?